tech-pkg: Re: tar ignores filenames that contain `..'

Subject: Re: tar ignores filenames that contain `..'
To: Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/23/2002 11:18:38

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Eric Jacoboni wrote:

> Frederick> Try setting
>
> Frederick>   EXTRACT_USING_PAX=	YES
> Frederick>   PAX=			/bin/pax --insecure
>
> Frederick> in "/etc/mk.conf".

> ===> Required installed package gmake>=3.78: gmake-3.80 found
> ===> Required installed package libtool-base>=1.4.20010614nb9: libtool-base-1.4.20010614nb9 found
> ===> Required installed package x11-links>=0.8: x11-links-0.8 found
> pax: Trying to read GNU tar archive with extensions off
> 2+0 records in
> 2+0 records out
> 20480 bytes transferred in 0.002 secs (10240000 bytes/sec)
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop.

What happens if you just have

  GTAR=	/bin/tar --insecure

(and not EXTRACT_USING_PAX)?

Frederick